[ckan-dev] Work on the ckanext-datapreview plugin

Thu Jul 14 11:49:40 UTC 2011

On 14 July 2011 02:56, Tim McNamara <tim.mcnamara at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 13 July 2011 23:39, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 13 July 2011 12:07, Aron Carroll <aron.carroll.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 1. How to generate the graphs? It seems to me the best way to create
>> > useful
>> > graphs is to get users to generate them via a simple creation tool
>> > similar
>> > to the one on socrata.com.
>>
>> I've not seen this, but rather than reinvent the wheel, why don't we
>> just use the Scraperwiki Views?
>
>  The ability to create and render arbitrary views ala ScraperWiki would be
> excellent.

I had a chat with Aron about this yesterday, and although the
ScraperWiki views are excellent (and we are keen to have them!) since
they are based on writing a chunk of Python, they  are more
heavyweight than the sort of thing Aron is considering right now,
which is more along the lines of Excel graph wizard - point at cells,
column/row headings and choose a graph type.

David

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